Mathematica fonts in Fedora 9

Just wanted to post this in case someone else runs into the same issue.

Mathematica is a commercial product that is available for Linux and Linux/X11, the X11 version appears to use the Qt library. After moving from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 the fonts in Mathematica notebooks do not appear correctly (invisible unless highlighted).

I found a workaround noted in a comment of Ubuntu's Launchpad bug 214683

Here's the workaround adopted for Fedora, set MATHDIR to the Mathematica installation location, /opt/mathematica in my case:

Code:

MATHDIR=/opt/mathematica
yum install qt qt-x11
rm $MATHDIR/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux/libQtCore.so.4
rm $MATHDIR/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux/libQtGui.so.4

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